Knitted sweater.



M. A. MUELLER KNITTED SWEATER.

APFLIGATION FILED MAR. 6, 1909.

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MAX ARTHUR MUELLER, or BROOKLYN, new roan.

KNIT-TED SWEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent. 'Pgmgentagd ltlla y 1U, 191W.

flinplicatihn filod March 6, 1M9. Serial No. 481,719.

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Be it known that I, MAX'AnrHni: MUEL- Lee, a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in

the county of Kings, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Knitted Sweater, of which the following is a specification My inventionrelates to lrnitteclgarments, and more particularly sweaters for ladies, wear, and the object of my invention is .to so construct such" a garment that it. may

have and maintain a shaped or fashioned effect Without seams and without showing on the exposed outer face the means by which that shaped or fashioned effect is secured. -.This objectI attain by knittingthe bod-y of the garment on a machine having two sets of needles to form a ribbed inner face and any suitable outer face, provided the outer face loops are substantlally aselastic as those forming the rib wales on the inner face,- and thenknitting into the inner,

rib wales onlyat intervals, where the waist of the garment is to be, rows of tying courses-to tie the inner ribwales together and thereby limit the stretching of the garment at the waist, and thiswithout the tying. threads showing on the outer face. I pre fer to knit the outer face of the garment of some ornamental stitch, such as shell or honeycomb stitch or -rack"stitch;, etc,

the formation of these bein g well under:

stood in the art, of knitting, but ordinary.

. ting a flat web, but I do not-wish to limit myself to the use of any particular type of knitting mechanism-flat or circulanprovided there are two sets of needles adapted to produce loops on both faces.

. In the accompanying drawings, is an outside View of the rear face of a "sweater, showing a rack stitch outer face; Fig. 2 is an inner face view of the sweater, as f turned lnslde' out; Flg. 3 1s an enlarged section of a part of the fabric, showing the manner in which the tying courses unite the inner rib wales.

Figure 1 drawings, I have illustrated a. sweater con-.

s'isting of a single flat knitted web made u into a sweater without side seams, and pre erably a jacket form of sweater. The outer face ofthe knitted fabric is indicated as knitted with elastic rack stitches a; while the inner face is knitted with vertical rib Wales 5, these two styles of stitches being of about equal elasticity and being produced by well known methods of operation of the two sets of knitting needles on a Lamb or other suitable machine.

When in the course'of knitting. (the. web for any. given garment the waist line of the garment is reached, I knit into the inner rib wales only, at suitable intervals, courses of tying threads, using-for this purpose only one set of needles which form the rib wales on the inner face of the fabric, while the needles carrying the loops of the outer face are temporarily held out of action. These tying courses, which I have indicated at t in Figs. 2 and 3, are thus in effect courses of plain knitting knitted into the rib wales only, the sinker wales of the plain knitting loops extending straight across between the rib Wales on the inner face of -thefabric, and thus limiting the natural elasticity oft-he fabric due to the.use of the rib wales. In consequence, thefinished garq ment will not be capable of being stretched so :much at the waistline as at the other parts of the garment and therefore the sweater Willi-have. a fashioned effect, though made ofa, seamless web, and will 'maintain' its shape notwithstanding the stretching. and'rough usage to which such a garment isusually subjected. Owing to the act "that these tyingf'courses are knitted only into'thexinnerwales, they will not showon y ,195 The different parts of the'web for the dif- .ferent parts of the sweater (breast, waistf the outer face.

hips) ma be knitted of varying weights 'ofi yarns an of varying degrees of tightness or looseness; Thus the whole waist line may be knitted tight, while the breast and hip portions may beknitted loosely. So also I may use thicker 'or more elastic yarns for the breast and hips than for the waist.

I claim as my invention:

1. A knitted sweater, having on its inner face one set of loops forming rib wales and In the particular example shown in theii on its outer. face another set of loops, with the inner rib wales only, as and for the purpose described.

2. A knitted sweater having on its inner face rib wales and on its Outer face other and different ornamental but elastic knitting loops with tying courses at the waist line knitted into the inner rib wales only, as and for the purpose described.

3. A knitted sweater, having on its inner face one set of loops forming rib wales and on its outer face another set of loops, with tying courses at the waist line-knitted into the inner rib wales only, the diiferent parts of the sweater, breast, waist and hips, being knitted of varying weights ofyarns and of varying degrees of. tightness or looseness, substantially as described.

4. A knitted sweater having'on its inner face rib wales and on .its outer face elastic 5. A knitted sweater, having on its inner face rib wales and on its outer face elastic Jstitch loops with-tying coursesatthe waist line, said tying courses consisting of plain knlttlng courses knitted into the inner rib wales.

6. A knitted sweater, having on its inner face rib wales and on its outer face elastic stitch loops, with tying courses at intervals at the walst line, said tying courses consisting of plain knitting courses knitted into the inner rib wales.

\ 7. A knitted sweater, having on its inner face one set of loops forming rib wales and on its outer face another set of elastic loops with tying courses of plain knitting at the waist line, knitted into the inner rib wales, the sinker wales of the plain knitting extending straight across between the rib wales I on the inner face of the fabric, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAX ARTHUR MUELLER.

Witnesses l J. A. BOEPPLE, CURT EHRENBERG. 

